pared to travellers on their way to the same city, separated for a time by roads which divaricate indeed, but are never very distant from each other, and meet with a quick convergency in the same point at last."

P. 61, 1. 16. Through every region and o'er every

clime.

Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, "Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons: But in every nation he that feareth him, and worketh righteousness, is accepted with him." Acts x. v. 34.

This by no means implies that truth in religion is of no importance, or that all religions are alike acceptable to God.

P. 62, 1. 19. Its balmy odours, its refreshing streams.

It is observable that Aden, in the eastern dialects, is precisely the same word with Eden, which

we apply to the garden of paradise: it has two senses according to a slight difference in its pronunciation; its first meaning is a settled abode; its second delight, softness, or tranquility: the word Eden had probably one of these senses in the sacred text, though we use it as a proper name.

The writer of an old History of the Turkish Empire, says, "The air of Egypt sometimes in summer is like any sweet perfume, and almost suffocates the spirits, caused by the wind that brings the odours of the Arabian spices."-SIR WM. JONES'S DISSERTATION, &c.

As when to them, who sail

Beyond the Cape of Hope, and now are past
Mozambic, off at sea north east winds blow

Sabean odours from the spicy shore

Of Araby the Bless'd;

MILTON.

P. 68, 1. 20. Exults the Christian, he may well exult.

To Christianity is chiefly to be ascribed the abolition of the horrid practices of human sacrifices.

"Among the Carthaginians, particular persons, when they were desirous of averting any great calamity, offered up their children as human sacrifices to their god Moloch. This custom prevailed long among the Phenicians and Canaanites, from whom the Israelites borrowed it, though expressly forbid by Heaven. At first, children were inhumanly burnt, either in a fiery furnace like those in the valley of Hinnom, so often mentioned in Scripture, or in a flaming statue of Saturn. The cries of these unhappy victims were drowned by the uninterrupted noise of drums and trumpets."-ROLLIN'S ANCIENT HIS

TORY.

This dreadful practice prevailed in almost every nation of the ancient world. The Egyptians had it in the early part of their monarchy. The Cretans had it, and retained it long;-the nations of Arabia did the same.-The people of Dumah sacrificed every year a child. The Persians buried people alive. Phylarchus affirms, as he is quoted by Porphyry, that of old every Grecian state made it a rule before they marched towards an enemy, to solicit

a blessing on their undertakings, by human victims.

The Romans were accustomed to the like sacrifices. They both devoted themselves to the infernal gods, and constrained others to submit to the same horrid doom.

The Gauls and the Germans were so devoted to this shocking custom, that no business of any moment was transacted among them without being prefaced with human victims.

The like custom prevailed to a great degree at Mexico, under the mild government of the Peruvians; and in most parts of America. The early history of Britain is stained with similar atrocities.

But wherever the genius of Christianity has shed its benign and happy influences, all such horrid sacrifices vanish. In the interior of Africa, and in many of the Islands of the South Seas, the custom still prevails, but it is earnestly to be hoped that the Missionaries who have so nobly volunteered themselves to the service, will be able to abolish such practices,

and in their stead erect the glorious religion of

the cross.

P. 68, 1. 19. Which grace our empire and adorn our

isle.

"In Surat there is no hospital for human beings, but an extensive establishment of this nature for sick or maimed animals."-NIEBUHR'S TRAVELS, vol. it, p. 405.

T. Bensley, Printer,

Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London.

THE END.